VW Bus - Recommendations and Rationales?
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dee ee

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Dec 9, 2012 - 10:26am PT
RIP
healyje

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Portland, Oregon
Dec 9, 2012 - 10:32am PT


Exactly. Passed on burning on the side of I84 in the Gorge once and it was one of the hottest, most intense, fires I've ever experienced and that was through glass in a car passing thirty feet away from it. I was surprised that side of my car still had paint on it. I'm guessing in the course of the engine going up some somehow metals got ignited as parts of it were white hot in appearance.
Dingus McGee

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Laramie
Dec 9, 2012 - 11:31am PT
Some older vw engines and some earlier Mag wheels had a unsubstantial amount of magnesium in the castings. Well, sparklers, the fireworks small kids are allowed to handle around the forth of July also have magnesium.

In the 60's some late night hippy country parties would put a mag VW engine block in a bond fire and eventually watch "the blue magnesium fire" explode. These quoted words are in some song of that era.
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